Is it true that coach Appel is retiring?
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Hey! We partially agree on something: Alco football is irrelevant. However, FH is the joke because it has always has been envious of not being able to play below its class size in the past and now plays way below its competitive level to make up for previous envy. That is the joke. FH was not allowed to play down so now they do to make up for it.... What a joke that is.
No program in any sport can make someone fast. But you can chose to sit the bench to get a ring if you want.
I agree with you but you know a certain amount of people in town don't want to give up their Homecoming breakfasts, tailgates and after-parties.
Dude you dont have to tell me what i saw. As i said i was there. And your right they did load the box. And i really would have liked to seen them come to Cumberland last year.
When Miss Campera has to quickly change to be the single Arrowette dancing to "Hey look me over"- or several games incur a running clock in the first quarter... well, then even the most selfish might say, "Enough of this shit."
Just as into each success is sown the seeds of its own destruction; so too, each tradition becomes its own travesty.
Someone should tell ole Appel he is missing out on a billion dollar book deal about how he can make a player fast - unless the reference was to go days without eating.
You gots to love the harmony coming from the Sedgwick Street Quartet. The main problem is that the "B" side of their 45 sounds exactly like the "A" side. Have come up with some new tunes guys but hey keep trying. It's entertaining.
Just asking here how long ago was the 21-20 game? That felt like it meant something.. that wasn't 40years ago...
Then, at least you and I are amused. I give my opinions as honest as I see them. When things get a little weird, I don't mind that either. Admittedly, in older days I would crawl right down in the gutter with the worst of them. That no longer amuses me.
It gives me no pleasure to agree that Alco is irrelevant in football or that the pageantry is lost in homecoming. So, I try to be as humorous as possible in dialogue.
Incidentally, I defy anyone to point to a single FH member of this forum who has been as critical of FH as I have been of Allegany. Lest we forget the 'Can the Korn' mantra.
In reality, Alco grads are as different as FH grads are the same.
And it wasn't 40 years ago that Allegany beat Dunbar. Any single game at any single point in time was never my point. My point has always been the evolution that has now brought us to critical mass. It is a numbers game and Alco is in the algorithmic sinkhole.
It seems to me that I have posted countless times that Allegany should seek out competition equal to its ability and depth. FH should in turn do the same.
I do love your mass confusion. Continously needing to both put down Allegany, while still comparing FH's accomplishments to a team you insist is inferior.
Btw, a record reference? The reference would have obsolete even 21 years ago when FH last beat Dunbar.
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I hear Alcos cry, whens the last time fh beat Dunbar... I get it.. i hear fhs only can play who's on the schedule... yada yada.. so until fh beats Dunbar alco will talk and until alco actually beats fh themselves fh is gonna say count our trophies... point being we are talking about it, until we stop the game has relevance right?? I could see 5 more years of an alco decline and something will have to change.. what idk? But I'm holding hope alco will get their numbers back up get some of their pride back.. I hate the thought of consolidating... but if alco doesn't rebound its coming..
Do you mean number of students in the school or on the football team? I’m don’t think Alco having low numbers on the football team has anything to do with the schools consolidating.
I thought trophies didn't count? Or is that just what FH said when they only had two?
numbers in football rebound... doesn't matter Cumberland school are shrinking regardless.. let both schools get down in numbers and have no real rivalry feeling to it,its posible that talk starts again... but eventually in my lifetime it will happen...
The pleasure of seeing you embarrass yourself is worth the trip to this board.
But I'm holding hope alco will get their numbers back up get some of their pride back.
Alco getting its numbers back is the same type of tripe that was troweled out from Dunbar when they were stacked deep and dropped to 1A with Tavon Austin, whom they snatched from Joppatowne right after he was on the 'Joppa' team that beat Alco in a playoff game on a slop field in Joppatowne. They had 4A talent but ridiculed FH for a 'lack of program' and pride.
First of all you cannot manufacture athletic young men. Allegany has and always has had a good football program. They have always been successful when they have the talent to play. The mere fact that Allegany continues to schedule FH and quality teams with such weak depth shows that they have 10 frickin' times the pride FH has with 10 frickin' times less depth and talent.
"Git yeh numbers up".... "Git yeh pride back"..... I don't know if that is more stupid or more ignorant.
I don't know why some folks don't understand that you can improve skill set and muscle mass but you cannot turn a non athlete into an athlete.
That’s true. Almost every player fort hill has received a d 1 scholarship. Do you really think the SEC would be so dominant football conference without all of the players that fort hill has given them.
So tell me there Tony-too-smart-by-half, how many athletes in aggregate do you think there are in Cumberland - in specific, the ones who can qualify to play high school football.
I guaran-damn-tee you that both Appel and Hansel do know that number.
I guarantee pretty much every damn kid that can play football for FH or Alco is being recruited constantly. Look at the homecoming field and you can get the varsity number.
So, indirectly you are looking moronic to think that there are an 20 or 30 athletic young men walking the Allegany halls that could be playing Camper football who aren't.
If you look at the mpssaa allegany has more students than ft hill. As has been noted by another poster on here, even the arrowette numbers are down. Ft hill keeps wining because of the dedication of the coaches and the tradition. The youth league is a big part of that too. Trust me. If coach Chaney would come back to coach ft hill, he could destroy this tradition in 2 to 3 years. Let’s pray that coach Appel sticks around a little longer.
Oh and trump wins this next election too!!
Oh and trump wins this next election too!!
I have to disagree with you on on the last statement. I’m not saying they are 5 star athletes but they could be good football players if the coaches would take time and work with them but they’d have to want to do it and that will lead down a rabbit hole of reason on why they don’t. From a fort hill fan perspective and I know I can be die hard red sometimes but I think I’m pretty neutral outside of the season but the reason FH has such a massive bench is because the kids want to play for Todd and they know that he will give them the time and see the effort they are putting in for him
The reason I ask you in aggregate was for Cumberland in total, where athletes could freely move back and forth at all age levels, this is an important number. Not only that, it is quite numerically possible to have significantly greater numbers in one geographic location than another. In short, the total number of available athletes doesn't change for Cumberland, but the numbers are gigantically lopsided in depth and talent between Allegany and FH.
When ask his secret to winning with the Yankees, Casey Stengel once replied, "It ain't tough to fill out this lineup." So too it ain't tough to pick FH starters and still leave a 2nd team about as talented sitting on the bench. Get it?
Ft hill keeps wining because of the dedication of the coaches and the tradition.
No. A thousand times no. If all things were equal then you could say that tradition and/or coaching were the difference. They are not. Either more athletes come from that side of town or their parents put them in that program regardless of demographics. It ain't mystical or metaphysical: it is mathematical.
